ABSTRACT
This chapter examines ways of actualizing the tension, beginning with a reflection about the ontological basis and epistemological strategy appropriate for a post-positivist science. It discusses the ecological aspects of the reproduction of the polity. A para-political reflection on the post-modern trilogy of science, technology and bureaucracy would illuminate the tension that could bring about an entirely new political consciousness. In a symmetrical fashion, the natural sciences also borrow concepts from the anthropo-sociological and political domains. Ethology and evolutionary models are more obviously relevant to political inquiry. The whole that the interplay of physical, biological, and socio-political metaphors should render manifest is the evolutionary pathway of the "political animal" considered in his animal as well as in his political nature. In the absence of an ethical perspective, environmental policy and even Rene Passet's naturalized political economy risk to miss their targets.
